Hi Everyone! Thank you so much for all of your reviews! I'm really glad you enjoyed the last chapter and hope you enjoy this one as well! And I have it posted fast, yay! Also, beware of Oocness...I mean of course when everyone falls in love, love changes people, just like it changed Sesshoumaru a bit. And that's all I have to say lol.
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Chapter 29-The Purest Love
Sesshoumaru kept following Kagome's scent until he was far away from the dead soldiers and could hear the most beautiful voice singing. The tune was familiar and it brought hope to his heart. Soon he could hear the words of the song. It was the song that Kagome and Rin always sang together, and the words were true. He would always come for Kagome and Rin. Getting close he saw her lying with her eyes closed, trees surrounding her. "Kagome."
Kagome turned her head to see a blurry Sesshoumaru. A soft, loving smile came over her face as she waited for him to come closer. "I knew you'd come." She said in barely a whisper, closing her eyes again. She felt so weak that she couldn't even hold her eyes open. Even being happy was draining the rest of her strength.
Sesshoumaru bent down in front of her. The sight of the pool of blood beneath her, staining the leaves, horrified him. He looked her up and down and couldn't believe how pale and sickly she looked. His nose curled when he got a small scent of death. He knew he had to help her fast. But there was one thing that he could smell that made him want to cry. Yes, Sesshoumaru actually felt like crying. His mate had been fighting and is now close to dying while she's pregnant. How could he ever let her fight while she was pregnant? Why didn't he notice before?
Slowly he put an arm under her neck and the other under her legs. Once he lifted her up, she opened her eyes again.
"What's wrong?" She asked. Her vision was blurry but she could see the sad, worried look on his face.
"If I would only have known. I would never have let you fight." He replied.
"Known what?" Kagome asked.
"Kagome. You're pregnant."
Kagome didn't say anything for a moment. She couldn't believe it. "Really!" She smiled.
"Yes." He nodded. He wasn't sure what kind of a reaction he was going to get from her.
The biggest smile spread across her lips and could be seen in her eyes. Her and Sesshoumaru were going to have a baby!
Sesshoumaru smiled back, but his smile faded when Kagome's eyes closed and her head went limp on his arm. She had fainted. As quick as he could, he flew into the air and went back to the village in a jolt. Luckily Kaede's hut was still standing. He landed and asked Kikyou to throw a blanket on the floor.
Kikyou did as he said and he laid Kagome on the soft blanket. Ripping the clothes around her thigh, he inspected the wound. 'How could a human do this to another human? It's a good thing she killed the bastard that did this or I would have found him and did worse.' He thought, knowing it was a dagger that had been in her. "Do you know any herbs that can help heal and stop the bleeding?" He asked Kikyou. InuYasha, Oki, Sango and Miroku all stood quietly watching.
"Yes I do. Kaede has some herbs over here." She replied, running to the cupboard that held the herbs. Grabbing the right one, she took some herbs into her fingers and dabbed them onto the wound.
After Kikyou finished, Sesshoumaru wrapped a clean cloth around her thigh tightly and the next thing he did was look after her arm. Then looking around, he found one of Kagome's clean kimonos. Leaving her in those bloody, dirty clothes could only spread infection. Clearing his throat, he glared at the company that was staring, his eyes saying, 'get out.'
All of them got the hint and left the hut to Sesshoumaru and Kagome.
Moving around her, Sesshoumaru removed her clothing carefully. To his disappointment when he had taken off her shirt, there were little cuts everywhere. He had gotten cuts like that too, but they were already healed by now. Thankfully, the cuts were not that deep and he could just wash them off. It bothered him the whole time he was washing; just the sight of his mate looking so bloodied and wounded made him feel sick. He knew the feeling that his father had when his mate was in danger and then stabbed while she had a baby in her. He use to hate his father for loving that woman because she was a human, but at the moment he would do anything to make sure Kagome would live. 'How could I have let her fight?' He said to himself, regretting his decision.
Turning he took Kagome's navy blue kimono and slowly put it on her. 'We have a child.' He thought, looking into her peaceful face. If his father were there now, he would tell him how scared he is to lose Kagome. He knew that they put healing herbs on her wounds and wrapped them up, but with that much blood loss and such a deep gash out of her leg, infection could kill her quickly. And he knew that he had to try and get water into her too.
After getting the kimono on her, he got a bowl full of water; set it down behind her head and he sat on the floor. He began putting his fingers through her hair and cleaning it in the water. By the time he had her hair clean, the water was an awful reddish-brown color.
Wow, I never seen Sesshoumaru care for anything or anyone like that before." Miroku said, watching Sesshoumaru through the window. At the moment Sesshoumaru was putting a pillow under Kagome's head.
"Demons mate for life. If a demon's mate dies, the demon dies inside too, and they never mate again with anyone. Demons care about their mates more than their own life." InuYasha said, leaning against the hut with his eyes shut.
"That's beautiful." Sango said.
Miroku moved away from the window and scanned the village. The place looked exactly like a warzone. From the hill to the village were dead people. The ground could barely be seen and when you could see it, it looked red from all the bloodshed. "Thank you for coming." Miroku said, talking to the demons that had come to battle. Quite a few demons had been killed, along with a lot of the villagers too.
"No need to thank us. We came to save demons' existence, and we did. Unfortunately sacrificing a lot of us, but the war is over, and there are still many demons throughout Japan." A demon that almost looked like one of the Thunder brothers replied.
"Yes, you're right." Miroku said.
"We are going to stay and help you bury the dead. For you alone it could take a whole day." The demon said, rubbing his bald head.
"There is way too many bodies to bury all of them. Besides they could spread disease. Tomorrow we'll start. The first thing we'll do is take out all the bodies from the village and all the demons, and we will give them a proper burial. The rest will be piled and burned." InuYasha said, opening his eyes to look at the horizon. The sun was almost down, and the rain had finally stopped.
"Then I have to work on building all the houses and huts that were destroyed." InuYasha said, wishing his own house hadn't been burned.
"It sounds like a plan." Miroku said, turning to go back into Kaede's place.
"I hope you can find a place to rest guys." InuYasha said to the demons.
"Don't worry about us, we'll sleep."
InuYasha nodded and followed Miroku. When he went in, Sesshoumaru was just sitting with his legs crossed by Kagome. InuYasha could tell that his half brother was watching Kagome's chest to make sure she is always breathing right.
Once they were all in the room it seemed quite cramped, but no one cared. Sango looked at Kagome sadly. "She's going to be so upset when I tell her the news."
"What news?" Sesshoumaru asked, shifting his eyes towards Sango.
"Kaede was killed." Sango replied.
Sesshoumaru looked back at Kagome. 'She will be sad.'
"Well, I'm going to take my leave into the other room." Miroku said, giving Sango the look to follow him.
"Try and get some sleep, if you can, Sesshoumaru-sama." Miroku said and then left the room.
Sesshoumaru found it hard to believe. Did Miroku just show respect for him?
It shocked InuYasha as well, but InuYasha was no where near ready to call Sesshoumaru's name with respect. He could sense something was different about Kagome. He walked a little closer to her and then knew what it was.
"InuYasha, what are you doing?" Kikyou asked, noticing the suddenly disturbed look on his face.
Sesshoumaru looked up at InuYasha and glared back.
"You let her fight while she is pregnant?" InuYasha snapped.
"It's none of your business, InuYasha." Sesshoumaru replied more calmly than he usually would.
"What kind of mate are you? You would let her fight in a war when she is carrying your child?" InuYasha raised his voice.
"What's going on?" Sango asked, coming aback into the room.
"If it will shut you up," Sesshoumaru said scornfully, "I didn't know she was pregnant until I found her, and neither did she."
Sango gasped. "Does Kagome know?"
"Yes, I told her after I found her and smelled it myself." The angry youkai answered. Now he just wanted everyone to leave him alone.
InuYasha didn't say anything. He had too quickly assumed wrong. "Go on, Sango. Sesshoumaru wants to be left alone." He said.
Sango looked once more at Sesshoumaru and then went back to Miroku.
InuYasha stared down at Kagome with a serious look in his eyes. "She doesn't look good. And her blood doesn't smell good either."
"There's infection." Sesshoumaru said, not taking his eye off of Kagome. Before she was breathing normally, but now every few minutes, she would cough or she would breath fast suddenly.
"Sesshoumaru, I don't know if she'll make it. If the herbs aren't helping then…"
"I know!" Sesshoumaru said quickly. The talk of Kagome possibly dying was making him angry with InuYasha. He already knew that Kagome could possibly not make it.
InuYasha then turned around and went outside with Kikyou and Oki. "I don't know if she's going to make it." He said as he walked with Kikyou back to a hut that was still standing. "The smell of her blood is getting worse, and the odor of death is starting to come off of her."
"That's not good. If the herbs don't help, then the infection will only spread." Kikyou said, looking at the ground. She use to hate Kagome, but since she found out that InuYasha had always loved her even when he was with Kagome, her hate for the miko slowly went away. The past while that they had been together let her get to know Kagome better. She would not want to see Kagome die.
"I guess we'll have to see what tomorrow brings." InuYasha said, letting Kikyou enter the hut first.
"InuYasha, get some rest. I have to stay up for awhile and help Priestess Oki's wound.
"Okay." He nodded.
Sesshoumaru calmed down once everyone left, and in an hour he fell into a sleep in which he woke up every hour of the night, watching Kagome's chest move up and down unevenly.
In the morning everyone woke up after the sunrise to try and get as much work done as they could. InuYasha had been the first one outside. Right away he began digging holes for graves. He had a hard enough time finding a place to dig the holes since the ground from the outskirts of the forest and passed the village was covered in dead bodies.
After he had finished digging as many holes as he thought he'd need, he found Kaede and carefully placed her in the first grave. "You died with honor Kaede, and you sure will be missed." He said, looking back at Kaede's hut. Before anyone else came out, he buried Kaede completely, but didn't mark the grave, knowing that Sango, Oki, Kikyou, and Kagome would probably want to have a tiny service for her.
Next he began to drag the rest of the bodies to the graves. Before he was no where near finished, all the demons came and helped him, along with some of the villagers. He could hear weeping as men found their wives dead and woman found their husbands dead bodies. It was a sad sight to see.
The sun shone down on the village, expressing the life of another day. Shining through the window, the bright light woke Sango up. It didn't take long for her to remember everything that had happened, and getting up, she looked out the window. There were many humans and demons burying the dead. And there leading the group on what to do was InuYasha. 'He must've dug all those holes.' Turning away she then woke up Miroku and both of them slipped passed Kagome and Sesshoumaru to go outside.
"Good morning InuYasha." Sango greeted, going to him for instruction on what she should do.
"Morning." He replied. "If you want to help you can start by getting the weepers to finally get off their relative's bodies over there. We're almost done, but some of them won't stop crying on the bodies." InuYasha said, feeling sympathetic, but impatient at the same time.
"Alright." Sango said. Her and Miroku split and went to talk to the people who were crying. After a few wise words and a prayer, they allowed their relatives bodies to get taken away. Although as soon as they seen the body being dragged away, they started crying again. Many people were sitting in front of a grave, with their hand together praying.
"Finally, that's done. Now for the hundreds of these soldiers' bodies. Everyone just grab a body and pile them over here. Some of you will have to get the bodies that are near the forest." InuYasha said, bending down and grabbing three bodies at once and starting the pile.
"Some of these men are overly fat." Sango said, trying to pull a dead man. "It certainly helps having demons here." She said, watching a demon throw four bodies onto the pile.
"We'll have this done in no time." Miroku said as he dropped another body.
Back in the hut, Sesshoumaru sat listening to the noise coming from outside. Once and awhile someone would walk by the hut and grab another body or two. He looked at Kagome. Her face was even paler than yesterday and her breathing was getting raspy. The smell of her blood was getting worse and worse and she continued to cough. Not once did she ever open her eyes. Putting his hand under her head, he brought her up to his head. "Kagome." With his bangs hanging down over her head, a tear fell on her forehead. He felt like his world was ending. The smell of death was starting to fill the room, he knew Kagome wasn't going to make it. All he could do now is hold her close to him.
It took only one more hour to finish gathering all the bodies, thanks to the demons. If it had been just humans, then it could've took a whole day. "Get Kirara." InuYasha said to Sango.
"Kirara!" Sango called. From behind the hut, a little kitten came running towards them and then suddenly changed into her large fire-cat form. "Morning Kirara." Sango said, patting the youkai's furry head.
"Are there any other demons here that can create fire?" InuYasha asked.
"Yes, I can." A very deep voice replied. The small dragon demon walked out from the crowd to show himself.
"Good. Both of you go on either side of the pile and spit fire at it until it stays alight on it's own." He commanded and got everyone to back up.
While the two demons tried to light the pile, InuYasha left for the woods. He knew that everyone would be very hungry and need food if they were going to work all day. Before leaving he told Miroku where he was going and asked Miroku if he could get a fire ready for cooking.
Arriving at the stream, he first washed his bloodied hands off from handling all those dead bodies, then he went to work at catching fish. He caught at least fifty fish in half an hour and put them all in a net that he slung over his shoulder. Coming out of the woods he was glad to see the mound of bodies burning on its own, and Miroku with a cooking place ready.
"Wow, it looks like you got quite a lot." Miroku said when InuYasha dropped the net of fish beside him.
"I'm the master fish catcher." InuYasha said, pointing to himself with pride.
"Well then I'm the master fish cooker." Miroku said jokingly.
"What! No you're not. Anyone can cook fish." InuYasha talked back.
"Not as good as me. I'm the best." The monk said.
"Ah, no you're not!"
"InuYasha don't you know that Miroku is just trying to get you going?" Sango said.
"Fine! Be like that. But don't expect me to catch you fish anymore." The hanyou said sitting down in a huff.
"InuYasha, where's Kikyou?" Sango wondered.
"Probably gathering herbs or looking after Oki's shoulder." He replied.
"Oh that's right. How is Priestess Oki?"
"She's fine, just has a deep wound to her shoulder."
Miroku sat, dealing out the fish to everyone after they cooked.
Most of the people enjoyed the food, except the demons that complained that it wasn't enough to fill them. Then InuYasha would bark right back, telling them to go get their own fish.
Kikyou sat in a small hut. She was staring at the bright pink sphere in her fingers. All night she had been thinking about Kagome's condition, and about the jewel. She knew that Kagome wasn't going to make it, even herbs couldn't turn around the infection that was now traveling through her blood.
'I wonder if Kagome is still alive? She must be if InuYasha, Sango, and Miroku are outside working.' She thought, twirling the jewel around. She wondered what her and InuYasha would use the jewel for. InuYasha had made it quite clear that he didn't want to use it. And she had become okay with InuYasha not using the jewel to become a human. With the help of talking to Kagome that night in the hotspring, she realized that it's the hanyou that she had fallen in love with. Now she wouldn't want InuYasha any other way.
The only hope of Kagome living was in the Sacred Jewel. How worried she had seen Sesshoumaru the night before, made her think of how InuYasha would feel if it had happened to her. It was a hard decision to make, but glancing down at the sleeping Oki, she went out the door. Scared that it might be too late, she began to run to Kaede's hut. When she arrived in front of the door she stopped and then walked in.
There on the floor was Sesshoumaru. His head was bent down over Kagome's and his arms holding her up to him. Kikyou couldn't see his face and thought it was too late. "No. Please tell me she's not dead." She said, a tremble in her voice.
Sesshoumaru lifted his head to look at the Priestess. "No, she's still alive. But, she won't make it passed sunset. The scent of death is all over her." He said, looking back down at his mate. Her lips were chapped from her body not taking in any water.
Kikyou could see a tiny tear drop on Kagome's forehead and she knew it was from Sesshoumaru. Bending down by Kagome, she moved the bangs off of Kagome's pale face. "Sesshoumaru, please. Use this to save Kagome." Kikyou said, opening her hand in front of him, the Shikon no Tama sitting on her palm.
"What?" Sesshoumaru said, not sure if he had heard right.
'Use it on Kagome. I'm giving you permission to take it and use it." Kikyou said again.
Sesshoumaru took the bright pink sphere off her hand. He never thought he would be the one to make the pure wish on it. He didn't even know if he could make a pure wish. Did Kikyou even know about the whole pure wish thing? Looking from the jewel in his hand to Kikyou's concerned face, he asked, "can a demon make a pure wish?"
"I believe they can." Kikyou answered, a soft smile on her face.
Sesshoumaru would usually never make a wish in front of anyone except Kagome, but since Kikyou was so kind to him and Kagome was close to death, he didn't care.
Kikyou stood and moved away from the couple so the jewel would have room to do its work.
Sesshoumaru held the Sacred jewel in his hand so tight that he could've broken it again. Holding Kagome close to him, he said, "I wish that Kagome, Rin, and I could live long and joyful lives together, as a family." Suddenly the jewel started glowing and lifted out of his hand. Both Sesshoumaru and Kikyou squinted their eyes from the light as the jewel hovered above Kagome.
Spreading its light all throughout the room, Sesshoumaru could barely see when some light entered Kagome's body, and for a moment her body lifted off the floor and was then set back down. The light then left Kagome and shot out of the hut and quickly went down the well to reach Rin. Sesshoumaru didn't know what was going on when the light went out the hut, and ran out the door to see the light stretching through the woods.
A second later the light returned and settled, moving around the jewel like mist.
"Sesshoumaru."
Sesshoumaru felt his heart jump in joy when he saw Kagome's eyes open, and heard her voice say his name.
Kagome had no clue what was happening. Getting out of the blankets, she rose to her feet. All she could do was stare at the shiny pink glow in front of her. Getting scared, she quickly ran around the light and straight into Sesshoumaru's arms. "What is that?"
"That's the Sacred Jewel." Sesshoumaru replied, smiling as he held Kagome in his arms.
"Sesshoumaru. Kagome." The jewel spoke in a kind, womanly voice. "Thank you. Because of your love, I am free."
All three of them watched as the jewel's light exploded through the hut and out the windows. Sesshoumaru covered his eyes from the blinding light. Kagome put both arms around Sesshoumaru's middle and hid her face in his kimono. After a few seconds, the light returned to the hut and then disappeared where the jewel had been.
"It's finished." Kikyou said, glad that Priestess Midoriko was finally free of the jewel.
"That voice. That was Priestess Midoriko." Kagome said, gazing up at Sesshoumaru.
Sesshoumaru looked down at her. She looked so cute cuddled into him with that clueless look on her face.
"Hey! What's going on in here?" InuYasha said, bursting through the door, followed by Sango and Miroku. "Kagome? You're awake." InuYasha said, shocked to see her up. He wasn't even catching any scent of death coming off of her anymore.
"Kagome has no wounds anymore." Sesshoumaru said to InuYasha.
Kagome looked down at herself. She lifted her leg and felt her thigh for the dagger wound, and it wasn't there. Neither was her arm wound.
"InuYasha, I let Sesshoumaru use the jewel. He wished a pure wish, and now because of that, the jewel is gone. That's what the light was that you seen." Kikyou explained.
InuYasha smiled and hugged Kikyou.
"The Sacred Jewel. You wished on it?" Kagome asked, looking up at Sesshoumaru's golden eyes.
"Yes, I did. If I hadn't, then you would have died." He replied.
"Then…you made a pure wish?" She said with a large smile.
"I guess I did, since the jewel has perished." He said.
"And Priestess Midoriko is free!" Kagome said happily. She squeezed Sesshoumaru even harder. Then quickly, another thought came to her mind. "But, the war, is it over? How many died?"
"The war ended yesterday. And yes, a lot of people did die. I'm sorry Kagome." Sango answered, a sad look on her face.
"Kagome, remember that this was a war." Sesshoumaru said, moving Kagome towards the door so she could look out and see the graves.
Kagome looked out and hated how many graves she saw. But seeing all the demons and humans that did live also made her happy. "What's that smoke?" She asked, seeing a dark mound that had smoke rising from it.
"Those are the dead bodies of the soldiers. We couldn't risk burying them in case of disease." InuYasha replied.
Kagome nodded her head, showing that she understood, and then turned back into the room. Glancing around, she knew something wasn't right. "Where's Kaede?"
And there came the question that Sesshoumaru wished she wouldn't ask yet.
"Kagome, I'm very sorry. Kaede didn't make it." Sango replied.
"What? Where is she?" Kagome asked. Her heart was pounding in her chest. She didn't want to believe that Kaede died too.
"She's in that first grave over there." InuYasha pointed.
Kagome looked back at Sesshoumaru and just as she was about to take off running for the grave, he grabbed her.
"Kagome, getting yourself all worked up like that is only going to put stress on you and the baby." He said, even though her baby was still only a tiny cell. She could still hurt it if she got too stressed.
"Baby? Oh yeah, I'm pregnant!" 'There's so much that has gone on that I forgot.' She thought.
Sesshoumaru saw the stunned look on her face and decided that it would be best to sit Kagome down to talk and relax. "Come, sit down. A lot has happened to you in the passed day."
InuYasha, Kikyou, Sango, and Miroku all turned and left Sesshoumaru and Kagome to their privacy. They knew they had lots of work to continue anyway.
The blankets being the most comfortable place in the room, Sesshoumaru laid down on them and then took hold of Kagome as she laid down tightly beside him. It was wonderful to see her face bright with color again, and her skin soft and flawless as it used to be. "Kagome. I could've lost you." He said, resting his head over hers. "I'm sorry, I should never have let you fight."
"Sesshoumaru I wanted to fight. I wanted to fight for all my demon friends and for you. And I'm still glad that I did. Both of us had no clue that I was pregnant." Kagome said, relishing in the warmth of his body. She was so glad that the war was over, and she could lie in her mate's arms again without having to dread the war to come. "Couldn't you have used the Tensaiga to bring me back to life?"
"I could have, but I wasn't sure if you would want me to once you're gone. And it would kill me to see you die." He replied, wrapping his arms around her even tighter.
"Really." Kagome said. She began to sob just thinking about how much Sesshoumaru loved her.
"Why are you crying?" Sesshoumaru asked, confused.
"I love you." Kagome replied, lifting a hand to wipe her eyes.
"I love you too, Kagome." He replied.
Smiling, she rolled around in his arms so she could see his face. "We have a child together! I can't believe it. I'm going to be a mom! And you a dad!"
"Yes. You must have gotten pregnant the last night we had mated." Sesshoumaru said.
"Sesshoumaru, you're going to love this baby no matter what right? You know it's going to be a half demon." She said, concern evident in her voice.
"I know. I will love it. It's my child." He replied.
Happy with his truthful answer, Kagome's mind quickly moved to another subject.
"So, Kikyou actually gave you the jewel?"
"Yeah."
"I think that's the nicest thing she has ever done. I wonder what made her do it?" Kagome wondered. She knew that her and Kikyou had gotten closer the passed week, but would that make her give away the only thing that was important to her, besides InuYasha? "Does she realize that now InuYasha will never be able to become human?"
"I would think so." Sesshoumaru said. "Maybe we were wrong about her." He said, remembering all the times they thought low of her.
"Maybe."
Outside, the pile was almost gone, and InuYasha had gone to work on cutting lots of trees to rebuild the huts and houses with. While he was cutting, he kept thinking to himself, 'why did Kikyou do that? I thought the jewel was one of the most important things in the world to her.' Not that he was unhappy about it. He was actually very very happy about it. For one thing, it saved Kagome's life, whom he still loved deeply as a friend, and it also meant he couldn't become fully human…ever!
Standing on a stump, he saw Kikyou walking by and heading towards the hut that Oki was in. He couldn't' take it anymore. He had to ask Kikyou why. "Everyone can take a break!" He said loudly so everyone could hear. Without checking to see if the workers all stopped, he jumped off the stump and went up to Kikyou's side. "Kikyou, I need to ask you something that has been on my mind constantly." He said.
Kikyou knew exactly what he wanted to ask and welcomed him into the hut with a smile. "I know this is about the jewel." She giggled.
"Yeah. I'm just wondering why you gave it to Sesshoumaru." He said, putting his hands on her arms and looking her in the eyes. 'She looks so happy.' He thought. He had never seen her look so happy before.
"I thought that you would be happy about it InuYasha." She replied.
"Well, I am. But I'm just wondering why you did it. Kikyou, I know that for a long time, pretty much since we met you wanted to use that jewel to make me fully human." He said, concern in his eyes.
"You'll probably never believe this, but someone made me realize that I fell in love with the hanyou InuYasha, not a human." She said smiling softly while rubbing her thumb on InuYasha's cheek.
InuYasha could only think of one person who could talk about love perfectly. "Kagome." He said.
Kikyou nodded. "Sesshoumaru, Kagome, and Rin needed that jewel more than us. And I knew that if Sesshoumaru wished on it, his wish would be pure, it would be of love and the jewel would finally perish." She said.
"Wow, you knew all that?"
Kikyou nodded.
"I love you Kikyou." InuYasha said and pulled Kikyou into him. 'Thank you, Kagome.' He thought as he kissed his mate. He had never felt so much happiness and love come from Kikyou before.
Kagome had lain with Sesshoumaru happily for an hour when she looked in his eyes and asked, "so, what did you wish?"
"Isn't it obvious." He said.
"But Sesshoumaru, what about Rin, and us living as long as you?" She said, worried that there only chance for living as long as Sesshoumaru was gone.
"Rin was in my wish. I said; 'I wish that Kagome, Rin, and I could live a long and joyful life together, as a family.' I would think that it would grant us the same length of life."
"But, how can we be sure?" Kagome asked.
"I don't know. The jewel's light seemed to go into the woods towards the well, so we'll have to ask Rin when we go get her." Sesshoumaru replied. "Otherwise, we will only find out as the years go by."
"I can't see the jewel going through the well to Rin, unless it was doing something to her." Kagome said more to herself than to Sesshoumaru.
"We should not go for Rin until the village is built back up and we are ready to go home." He suggested.
"With how fast InuYasha builds, that might only be for another day or two. Specially if you get out there and help." Kagome said, hinting to Sesshoumaru.
"Why don't we go outside and get some fresh air." Sesshoumaru said, lifting Kagome up with him.
"Sounds good." She said, and both of them walked out of the hut.
The sun shone on the village brightly, symbolizing a new beginning. It was mid-day and all the humans and demons were working together on a house. A bit farther away, there were family members kneeled in front of graves, and some graves already had flowers on them. Sesshoumaru watched as Sango called for Kagome, and with a big smile Kagome took off running to her. Kagome's shining black hair moved with the air as she ran, her leg not showing a sign that anything had happened to it. It made him thankful once again that she was alive. He continued to walk and caught up to the two women.
"Kagome, tomorrow do you want to help me gather flowers and decorate a cross for Kaede's grave?" Sango asked cheerfully.
"Hai! I'd love to!" Kagome replied.
Seeing that Kagome was happy with Sango, Sesshoumaru said, "I'm going to be over here." He pointed to the house that was in the process of being built.
"Okay." Kagome replied and then went on chatting and helping Sango wash some clothes.
"Hey! You wanna help build this house!" InuYasha shouted from on top of the unfinished roof that he was working on, and threw a hammer down to Sesshoumaru before the youkai could even answer.
Sesshoumaru caught the hammer and stared at it. Since when did InuYasha so openly ask him to do something? But Sesshoumaru did want to help. With a kick off the ground he landed on top of the roof.
"We just need all these boards nailed down to finished this house. This house is going to be for that family over there." InuYasha pointed down to a mom, child, and father that were laying flowers down on some graves. "We figure that after this, we could get one more house done by sunset. Of course the houses are gonna have to be shared with the other villagers for tonight though. Just until the rest are built."
InuYasha was talking so much that Sesshoumaru started to think he was talking to himself. "I thought all these families lived in huts before. Why are you building houses?" Sesshoumaru asked as he went to work at pounding down the nails.
"Since the whole village has practically been destroyed, and we have lots of help, I thought we my as well build them nice houses. After fighting in that war, this village deserves it." InuYasha replied.
Sometimes Sesshoumaru didn't understand InuYasha's reasoning, but at those times he just thought that was InuYasha's human nature coming through.
The rest of the day went by quickly, and as InuYasha had said, by sunset they had two houses built. They were plain wooden houses, but to the families that were going to live in them, they looked gorgeous. After sunset they made a small campfire in front of the village and all ate fish together.
"Thank you." Kagome said to Kikyou from across the fire.
Kikyou nodded and smiled kindly. She planned on personally thanking Kagome when she got to talk to her alone. To her, it was Kagome who was the one that deserved a thanks from herself for helping her realize her love for InuYasha, and a thanks from everyone here because if it wasn't for Kagome, the war would've come without notice and everyone could have been killed. Including the humans and demons that lived beyond the village.
Yay! There was a long chapter 29! I am so happy to have posted it, it's like I have writing disease, I just can't stop writing. Unfortunately reviewers, I will have to tell you that this story is almost over...probably only another chapter or two or three...not sure. And I had a question to ask all of you...I am definately going to write another fanfic, and I am wondering if I should write a sequel to Finding My Heart, or not? I am really into the anime called Ouran High School Host Club right now too and was thinking of writing a fanfic of that. But you decide, let me know if Finding My Heart is better off being one story or if I should have a sequel! Thanks!
My next update will be on September 30th.
